From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 9 11:29:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B0737B401; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0966E43E75; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021109192913.NLSH20487.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:29:13 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA9JTDIQ080381; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:29:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA9JTDcr080380; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:29:13 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200211091929.gA9JTDcr080380@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mark Linimon Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem in upgrading to latest pkgs In-Reply-To: <200211091421.22782.linimon@lonesome.com> References: <13739A17-F376-11D6-A579-000A27AFC7DE@wanadoo.fr> <200211091338.10008.behanna@zbzoom.net> <200211091856.gA9IuxD4079858@intruder.bmah.org> <200211091421.22782.linimon@lonesome.com> Comments: In-reply-to Mark Linimon message dated "Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:21:22 -0600." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1017149472P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 11:29:12 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-1017149472P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mark Linimon wrote: > > I distinctly remember adding it to the manpage. This was a nice idea > > before portupgrade came along, but too many people managed to shoot > > themselves in the foot with it. > > A solution that is possible is to reword the ports webpage to > point out the central role portupgrade plays. I will attempt to > create a PR for this. Maybe. It's not clear to me where people go to find out these things...the Handbook and FAQ are probably equally good places. (They are not mutually exclusive, of course!) > On a very similar note, is portcheckout a less-worthy contender > to portupgrade, and if so, should it be deprecated? Based on a very quick reading of portcheckout's pkg-descr file, I'd say that they perform two different functions. portcheckout lets you get port directories if you don't have a complete ports tree on your system. portupgrade upgrades existing ports, but assumes that all the necessary parts of a ports tree already exist on your local machine. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1017149472P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9zWII2MoxcVugUsMRAqpJAKDCiijKQV2RqYJ7rpaVBiPK9TWEJACfeU2J TxXGDO9fvCWL0mVm43UbkoA= =Xhci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1017149472P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message